Daily Republican., 1887-03-07

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Perhaps there u Is doctrine mn,
Olesny stated, and univefsaily rsosive
uu Oeaieveo. than that our federal hes,
Likeness Of God" "boIy. anls:s an r
| immortal" And By his disobenisns
he fell and lost tho Image and in enss
OF God, lost his holy, sinlees state' an,
involved himself and ali bIs nor t.rii, ,
10 . hell Of endless agony and tormen
throughout eternity. And. 10 sav IN,
Ienst, this 10 sad ARd fearful legacy fo
. man, made - he was, 70 leave IN IN.
ccuatiess, Unborn millions of his nos
terisy, and certainly 10 q serious refiso
tIon on the workmanship OF the initiate
~ wise creator OF man.
a man Who would invent q machine
wnich he knew would be OF no otheI
use imam to destroy the lives Of the on
coming generations OF the human race
would Dc considered . Hend In human
shape, and hanged or committed fol
me In solitary confinement. 6uch 9
man would dfsgraoe the civilization OF
the Wild men OF the jungles. How then
Gan you men, wise men, Intelligent
christian men, c0untenanco such On
awful description OF the infinitely good
and Wise creator Of man? Do they not
see that Man dieth and was.sth away
yea, ne giveth up the ghoet, and where
10 he?" Oh, say they, The 10 in heaven
or In hell" ~ they think the case may
happen to DO. But what did man q
Creator say? "Duit thou art, and unto
dust shalt thou return" Do men 70
turn to dust? Az far as our kno Y led 20
ID concerned they do, and have been
doing 30 for nearly six thousand years
Then which Is the most reliable,
our knowledge or mems say 80? Ii
GOD said that man should return to
dust, and We know this to To true,
what do mems say 60 amount &C? II q
man wishso to construct Q building,
does no attempt to commence with his
chimney top first. aud build DOWN or
course this would be impossible l.
God less wise than man? Did be not
commence with man whose brs ath
was In bis nostrils, with his fouBdaticu
In Inc DUST" Ifa man wished to put
. statue or image of himself on . Is
bniiding would he bs likely to put 1t in
tne foundation? Not If he wished 1t TO
be seen OF men. 1t IL often said THAT
fools, and children, shonld nessr med
Ole with halfd06e work" Aud there
10 vastly more coed sense than poetry
10 tho adage.
Has God finished his creation? He
has not, II we understand him. Did he
begin wrong end foremost? 50 It would
appear from the msnner In which his
uork has been 30 sadly 0isrepresentet
Did be have purpose and y plan by
which bis work was to proceed until
Its hnal contamination? We answ 81.
known unto God are all his wor ts
f'om the foundation OF the world" He
Declared the end from the beginning,
ANA from ancient times the things which
sro DOT yet done, say ing, Ny counsel
shs'! stand, and / will do oil my plea.
sure What was his eternal purpose?
We snswtr, "rhe eternal purpose of
God, which he purpo-ed In Christ Jesus
beiore The world began All, does his
pprpose date 80 far back as thai? 1t ,ioee.
Then 10 dates back OF Adam, does IL
noH Why, OF coarse IL doss.
II the end OF Gods purpose was ia
Christ Jesus, and 30 declared, before
the Adam made OF dust" had an exist
encs as Giving sonl," then Christ
Jetns vas pre-eDinentiy bsfore 4 Cam
IN the diviLe purpose. as originally de-
oIared. Henoe, Adam being only the
figure OF him which was to come" he
could sustsin no higher re.ation to
Christ than that Of "the figure" which
he represents, and could not By any
posi- oility be tho person of which he
WAC only "the figure" Hence II is
manifestly certain tia. "He who built
MI thinSs J, God Aud knowiog all
things, "t5e end from tho beginning,
an6 declaring this as his purpose" the
div De philosophy Of evolution WAS, and
stun ~. rirtt, that which IL natural !"
Ateersard THAT which is rpiritnal. !"
: ite htst man Is OF the earth, earthly.
Too eecoud mau IL the Lord from,
Heaven" "As is the earthly, sach are
they "a so which are earchy.' "As ia
the heavenly, euch are they also wbleh
are heavenly" "Since by the earthly
csmo death, 81 by tho heavenly came
also the resurrection of the dead"
Add as We (christiane) have borne
the IMAGE Of the earthly, We also shall
bear the image of tho heavenly" How
could the holy tpirit OF truth have
spoken In isr gnage more plainly, and
simply, ana definitely than Ii has in re-
CARA TO that which 10 natural, and also
that which 10 spiritual? Who that has
the power OF spiritual discernmeut can
fail 10 $50 the relative conditions of
these two representatives OF the natural
al d spir'tGa.: We are aware Of tho
natural inability Of the natural man to
this, but She that 10 spirit.
uni disH rneth all things, yet he him.
self. Is discernsd Of NO man" Our re-.
marks then apply only TO those who are
spiriinal. "It any man have not the
spirit o. ChriBt he is none OF His" AID
NY this We know the spirit Of truth
aud he spirit OF error" EVERY spirit
that coniesseth tina, Christ is come"
(and ccm,rg sgain,) ain the Hesh Ia of
God. Aud every spirit chat con.
fesseth not" tthese truths "is not of
God, but is that spirit OF anti Christ
waorso. 20 have bead that 1t should
CONF; and even COW already is it In tire
world Now, let az in this spirit look
Mt .the end, ss "Qod declared 1t from
tho heRinning."
and God said, let us make man In
our Image, after our likeness. and let
them have dominion" etc. Was this
purpose, as "the end" in Christ, or
was It in Adami Was l. In "the figure"
or in him, which was before the figure.
The beginning and the end, the first aud
the last" Was not Gods finished work In
Christ, and as such pronounced livery
good" IL not, how were "his works
finished from the foundation of the
he saw and declared
them in Christi in the beginning, in the
mind and purpose Of God, Adam, was
neither the beginning nor the end He
was only means to agrand and glorious
end. First, that which is natural, after
ward, that which is spiritual" Adam,
In the new testament, is, "the old man,
which we are to put of. "Christ is the
new man, which after God, was created In
and true holiness " Epb.
4, pa. after the image of him which |
created him." Col. $40. 1.-THE Image